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Multiple small meals and regular exercise are prescriptions for good health. Then comes Thanksgiving - one giant late-afternoon feast that's often preceded by long hours of travel and accompanied by more hours of football watching. What's a person to do? Well, according to multiple studies, exercising before feasting can be the most effective antidote to over-eating. (Of course, there's always the novel concept of exercising self-discipline and restraint and not over-indulging at the outset.)

Tidewater Review KING WILLIAM — More than 45 million turkeys will be the centerpiece of Thanksgiving meals across the country Thursday, and more than 150 of them come from King William County. Mike and Diane Taylor have been raising turkeys on Empress Farm on Route 30 for fours years. The couple's family farm is a world away from their previous professions. Before starting their farm raising rabbits in 2007, Mike worked as a cabinet installer and Diane was a computer manager.

HAMPTON - Food Lion and Harvestland Ministries International of Hampton, are partnering to provide 50 people from needy families with Thanksgiving dinners on Tuesday. "Food Lion is extremely proud to partner with Harvestland Ministries this holiday season to donate 50 turkeys to local families in need," said Teresa Hayslett, Food Lion District Manager in Hampton. "We are committed to alleviating hunger in our communities, and we were honored to work with Harvestland Ministries to help those families enjoy a very special Thanksgiving.

• Steve, Poquoson : Thanks for Tyra Vaughn 's perceptive report on Poquoson's loss of Ute's Gift Shop. In my view, the article really showed why it's sad to see fine businesses like Ute's having to close. Newport News barbershop • Many thanks for the delightful story about Southall's Barber Shop in the Newport News TownSquare section. Wonderful paper. Phoebus Family Dollar • So now it's cutesy little Phoebus. Don't we have enough of these cutesy little villages where everything has to be just antique shops and all?

Lo, it is nearly Thanksgiving. A holiday which, although it rates high on the national Cherish-O-Meter, still gets looked at a bit squint-eyed by certain old-time Virginians. Ask an O-TV, and he'll tell you, "That thing the Pilgrims did in 1621 wasn't the first Thanksgiving, no sirree, Bob!" (He will say this even if your name isn't Bob. Also, he will ignore your question, "What kind of a word is 'sirree'?") Instead, he will lecture you about how the real first official Thanksgiving took place at Berkeley Hundred on the banks of the James River, celebrated by newly arrived English setters on Dec. 4, 1619, which was almost A WHOLE YEAR before those Pilgrims even got to Massachusetts.

The Virginia Thanksgiving Festival noon-4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6, commemorates the 1619 landing of Capt. John Woodlief and 37 men, who sailed from England and made their home in Virginia, on what is now Berkeley Plantation in Charles City. The men fell to their knees and gave thanks to God for safe passage, thereby beginning what is the American tradition of Thanksgiving. This year, the festival celebrates the 50 t h anniversary of its incorporation as a charitable event.

The case involving a Fort Eustis solider who is accused of raping a Gloucester woman goes to a jury on May 25. Army Pvt. Seth LeMasters, a Fort Eustis soldier who was visiting a fellow soldier's aunt for Thanksgiving Day dinner in 2010, has been charged with rape. LeMasters, 24, had traveled with a fellow soldier to the home of a woman in the Pinetta area of Gloucester on Thanksgiving Day, Gloucester County Sheriff's Office officials said. The three consumed alcohol during the day, said Lt. Scott Little of the county's sheriff's office.

A Fort Eustis soldier who was visiting a fellow soldier's aunt for Thanksgiving Day dinner in 2010 has been charged with raping her. Seth David LeMasters, 24, had traveled with a fellow soldier to the home of a woman in the Pinetta area of Gloucester on Thanksgiving Day, said Lt. Scott Little of the Gloucester County Sheriff's Office. The three were consuming alcohol during the day, Little said. In the evening, LeMasters, his fellow soldier and the woman had gone to bed, but LeMasters later entered the woman's bedroom and raped her, Little said.